Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health, where he directs the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His research focuses on the social determinants of urban health and health inequalities with a special interest in the impact of local, national and global influences on diet-related diseases and food insecurity. He has published more than 120 articles, books, chapters and policy reports. His most recent book is Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health (Paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 2016).